- Farm animal welfare (pigs, broiler chickens, beef and dairy cattle)
- Abattoir-based animal welfare assessment
- Cat welfare
- The human-animal bond
- Anthrozoology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Development of animal welfare assessment methods
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Dr Grace Carroll
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- Focused on the psychology of relief, future thinking and debt, and cross-cultural differences in essentialist thinking.
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Dr Aidan Feeney
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- The human animal bond
- Animal welfare
- Laterality in animals
- Pets and human health
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Dr Deborah Wells
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- Psychosocial adjustment in chronic conditions
- Arts in health
- Animals and health
- Vaccination hesitancy
- Eating behavior
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Dr Emma Berry
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- The measurement of auditory perception in young children
- Early precursors to the development of language or literacy
- Trajectories of neural development for speech and language processing in infancy and early childhood
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Dr Tim Fosker
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- Arts in health, music health and wellbeing
- Ageing
- Psycho-oncology
- Health behavior change
- Digital health technologies
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Dr Jenny Groarke
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- Psychosocial intervention development for post-treatment cancer survivors and carers
- Improving quality of life in advanced illness
- Public health approaches to palliative care
- Psychosocial interventions in spinal deformity
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Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener
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- Auditory perception in relation to coordination / mobility (including in people with visual impairments or Parkinson’s disease)
- Auditory augmented feedback in skill acquisition / rehabilitation
- Skill acquisition in music, particularly in musical improvisation
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Dr Matthew Rodger
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- PhD projects on addiction (with a particular focus on alcohol) and mental health research utilising psychological approaches to prevention, assessment and intervention.
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Dr Paul Toner
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- Field of cultural diversity
- Immigration and integration
- Identity politics
- Educational success
- Political participation of immigrants and minorities
- Using a wide range of methods from comparative, multi-level, longitudinal research designs and analyses to experimental and intervention studies.
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Dr Gülseli Baysu
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- The field of the relationship between physical and mental health
- Measurement and modelling of trauma and post-traumatic stress
- The role of shame in mental health.
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Dr Donncha Hanna
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- Perceptual basis of movement
- Design of non-viral delivery systems
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Dr Joost Dessing
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Dr Mihalis Doumas
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- Canine olfaction
- Canine cognition
- Medical alert dogs
- Well-being of pet owners
- Collection of biological samples for training dogs
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Dr Catherine Reeve
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Promoting confidence in contact among school children
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Developing interventions to promote positive intergroup behaviour
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Nostalgia and intergroup relations
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Professor Rhiannon Turner
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Design and evaluation of community interventions to promote social cohesion
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Superordinate, cross-cutting, and alternative forms of identification in divided societies
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Development and maintenance of cross-group friendships
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Dr Danielle L Blaylock
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Dr Laura K Taylor
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- Modelling the psychological predictors of health-related quality of life via reviews of current literature and primary research
- Designing and evaluating interventions to enhance quality of life and modify illness and sick-role behaviours.
- Developing and testing instruments to measure psychological constructs of importance in this area, eg. health-related quality of life.
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Dr Martin Dempster
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- Visual motion processing
- Perceived duration of visual events
- Identifying cortical loci of motion-induced illusions
- Role of laughter in social interaction
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Dr Will Curran
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- Facial expression of emotion
- Sensorimotor simulation and facial mimicry
- Culture and emotion
- Development of emotional competence
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Magdalena Rychlowska
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